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trivial characters. It is probable that he cannot be brought to see 

 the error of his ways, but will continue to overdo the subject as long 

 as the British Museum keeps him at the work. A fifth volume is said 

 to be in active preparation and there seems no way to avert the 

 calamity. 



In the following detailed remarks, we refer mainly to American 

 species, as the others are unknown to us. Unfortunately the American 

 species form but a small proportion of the whole. 



The subfamily Anophelinse includes eighteen genera, of which 

 a table is given. They are separated on scale structure, of which 

 enough criticism has already been published. These groups do not 

 represent subgenera even, nor any natural groups less than genera. 

 The modifications of scale structure, while of specific value, do not 

 follow phyletic lines, but are mainly sporadic. This is the chief ob- 

 jection to Theobald's classification, that it is unnatural. Under Anoph- 

 eles, niaatlipemiis Meig., bifurcatiis -L. and nigripes Staeg. , three 

 European species, are credited also to North America, quite wrongly 

 we believe. Barberi is said to be probably a variety of Mfurcatus, 

 with which it really has no affinity. The species recently described 

 by us are unnoticed. Cruciaiis is included with doubt. According 

 to his table we make it fall in Anopheles. Mr. Theobald's doubts 

 about its generic position have arisen apparently from a misunder- 

 standing of Professor Smith's descriptive term " scales." Our tropical 

 species fall in other genera, except eisetii Coq., which the author has 

 not seen. This would fall in Myzomyia by his tables apparently. 

 Alyzorhynchella nigra, new genus and species is described from Brazil 

 and Mexico. We have it from British Guiana. 



The subfamily Megarhininse which, in the Genera Insectorum, 

 Mr. Theobald split into two subfamilies, Megarhininae and Toxorhyn- 

 chitinse, is now recognized as a concrete group with the remark: 

 ' ' that they are closely connected a casual glance will show, yet under 

 palpal classification some should come ( Toxorhyjichites^ near Culex, 

 and others (^Megarhinus) near Anopheles -j^^ Ankylorhynchae Lutz 

 and I^ynchiellina Lahille are given as synonyms — not a word of Tox- 

 orhynchitinse Theobald ! Fortunately but one new species oi Megar- 

 hinus is described, M. chrysocephalus, from a single male from Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil. "The legs in the specimen were damaged." As the 

 diagnosis of the species of Megarhinus depends largely upon the 

 markings of the tarsi, this species will remain an empty catalogue 



